Christopher Taylor schrieb: > Also, I've fooled around with passing --libdir=/usr/lib64 to the > configure script and for whatever reason, the Makefile isn't correctly > written. It always ends up copying the lib files to /usr/lib.
Ah, I see. The reason is pretty simple: Makefile.pre.in has LIBDIR= $(exec_prefix)/lib so it seems that LIBDIR isn't configurable. > Could not find platform independent libraries <prefix> > Could not find platform dependent libraries <exec_prefix> > Consider setting $PYTHONHOME to <prefix>[:<exec_prefix>] > 'import site' failed; use -v for traceback > > Just for sanity sakes I undid the changes to lines 83 & 87 of the make > file, did a "make clean", "make", "make test", "make altinstall", > "python2.4" followed by some goofing around and everything works fine. > So I'm guessing my manual edits of the makefile didn't go well. Any > idea what else I need to change? You will have to debug this (can't do right now); see Modules/getpath.c, and the definition of PYTHONPATH. It seems this isn't really supported. Regards, Martin -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list